Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has chosen Emerson Automation Solutions to provide a valve remote control (VRC) system for a semisubmersible offshore crane vessel, SSCV Sleipnir, currently under construction at Sembcorp Marine’s shipyard in Singapore…
IKM Testing Thailand has been awarded the service contract by Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform. The platform deck for the drilling platform will comprise of three modules. Aibel is to build the largest module, the main support frame (MSF)…
GustoMSC has appointed Alberto Morandi to the position of general manager of GustoMSC’s office in Houston. He will be responsible for running the office and will act as point of contact for GustoMSC’s US clients. GustoMSC’s US office represents the company’s design solutions…
Forum Energy Technologies has designed, manufactured, tested and delivered its 350th rotational torque (RT) torque machine to TAM International, a downhole inflatable packer provider. The torque machine, or bucking unit as it is commonly referred…
Houston-based Vaalco Energy restarted production at the Avouma 2-H well on the Avouma platform, offshore Gabon, after utilizing a hydraulic workover unit to replace a failed electric submersible pump (ESP) system. Gabon drill floor operations…
Valhall and Hod have passed 1 billion boe produced, more than three times what was expected at the opening of the field in 1982, Aker BP said. Image of Valhall, from Aker BP. Hod…
An investigation has been launched into a fire that broke out on an oil production platform in the US Gulf of Mexico yesterday. Image from the USCG Twitter. The fire was on Renaissance…
In this video, Royal Boskalis Westminister show the topside installation for the Vietsovpetro Thien Ung project, offshore Vietnam. Boskalis installed the Thien Ung BK-TNG 4200m topside and 850m living quarter by offshore heavy lifting…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has won the first offshore drilling project for Korean shipbuilders in 18 months, with an order for BP's Mad Dog II project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The US$1.27 billion order is for a floating production unit (FPU) weighing 58…
Oilfield services provider Expro has strengthened its well abandonment services with the appointment of senior project manager, Bill Inglis. Expro launched four new business capabilities last year, including fully integrated well abandonment services encompassing…
A North Sea exploration minnow led by one of the co-founders of Ithaca Energy and Iona Energy is a step closer to taking over a North Sea discovery with plans to list on the stock market to raise the cash needed to develop the field. i3 Energy…
GEODynamics has acquired Paradigm GeoKey’s Aberdeen, Scotland-based perforating business unit effective 1 January 2017. As a result of the transaction, GEODynamics, Inc. has established its UK operating company. Chris Chalker, former managing director of Paradigm GeoKey…
The American Petroleum Institute’s (API) 2017 State of American Energy report made a clear statement: energy is everything. Image of Gerard, from API. API President and CEO Jack…
Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) has successfully transported two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes via the Northern Sea Route (NSR), relocating them from the port of St. Petersburg to the port of Vostochny, spanning both the European and Far East regions of Russia…
LQT Industries, a service provider and construction company, has been awarded five insulation projects in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) from major oil and gas companies. These projects consist of the execution of projects on offshore platforms…